Now this is more like the kind of thing I want to be doing. It took a combination of…a few things…but I’ve had a real go at loosening up and mark-making and being happy with the process as well as the finished product. Still got to explore the mess where making decisions and sacrificing freedom meet, but I hope you can tell that I really enjoyed making this one.

Here’s one of the final pieces for the Soho project. It’s a personification of Soho (at least the aspect I saw whilst trawling Walkers Court). It’s to do with what the people think they’re like, what they’re actually like and how they’re perceived (thinking a lot about the transvestites). The plain black&white line drawing worked pretty well, but I wanted to add in the colours from some of the boutique-y shops around Soho. Turns out ‘fill’ works pretty well sometimes…

We had a ‘zany’ guy with green Wolverine style hair (well, if Wolverine was mainly bald…) in for life drawing a couple of weeks ago. I was getting a bit bored of how I’m drawing so after a couple of pedestrian pictures I thought I’d try the trusty ‘don’t lift your pen off the page’ trick. I’m quite pleased really…

And finally an idea I had when I was bored and looking through some of the texting options on my new phone. It doesn’t quite work because most people think it’s just a text I got rather than a menu for ways to start a text (most of them are real too…). Needs some work so I might have another go…

Should be back soon with more as I have to work madly for our project hand in on thursday. For the hundreds of people who are subscribed to my blog

Well it all worked out quite well in the end. I’ve had to sacrifice having a tablet (I’ll be saving up for a while methinks…) but I’ve got a brand spanking new laptop with the insurance money. It’s rather nice. So anyway, I’m back in business with a backlog of sketches.

These ones are from our map style project. Mine’s on Soho so it’s back to the transvestites…

First a little food though…

And here’s the guy from the previous post…

…and then how I imagine he sees himself…

Then a transvestite dude and the photo below it…

And some pictures from…er…some Soho literature. The first one’s vaguely disturbing.

And I couldn’t help myself when I saw one of the headlines on the cover…